Jessica Wynn
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first heard Nov 2025
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That's huge.
And those counties were disproportionately in the South and Southeast with higher Black populations.
Of course.
You know, so the research doesn't say food deserts are meaningless.
It suggests that focusing only on what a neighborhood lacks may miss something important.
What's already there, how concentrated it is and how constantly people are exposed to it.
which is what seems so logical to us at the beginning, right?
Improving access may still matter, but if a neighborhood is saturated with fast food, convenience stores, targeted promotions, and drive-thrus, adding one supermarket may not be enough to change the overall food environment.
So the evidence suggests the concentration of unhealthy food may be
the more important mechanism.
And that changes the policy response.
A food desert solution is to build a grocery store.
A food swamp solution is to regulate fast food density, change marketing, and address targeted promotion.
to go to Taco Bell this week.
So locked into that story.
But anyway, I mean, not necessarily.
So the point isn't that fast food restaurants shouldn't exist.
It's that demand.
It doesn't develop like we're thinking.
It doesn't develop in a vacuum.
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